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“Stock market. Gambling for rich people.
Mr. Harrigan also promised this, but I suppose men who understand business also understand that promises are easy to discard, being as how giving them is free.
Henry Thoreau said that we don’t own things; things own us. Every new object—whether it’s a home, a car, a television, or a fancy phone like that one—is something more we must carry on our backs.
In the twenty-first century, I think our phones are how we are wedded to the world. If so, it’s probably a bad marriage.
And yet, I can’t seem to put my own phone down. Even for sleep.
I think when a man or woman dies, a whole world falls to ruin—the world that person knew and believed in. Think of that, kiddo—billions of people on earth, and each one of those billions with a world inside. The earth their minds have conceived.”
the front page (dominated, as usual, by the president’s idiotic shenanigans)
LOL. Tell us how you REALLY feel! LOL
Holly has no idea if this is true, because her mother has a way of jiggering her view of the world until she’s seeing it the way she wants to see it.
Being sure helps a person sleep better at night.
Holly thinks her mother has found texting insufficient when it comes to crafting a really effective guilt trip.
It’s liking that got lost, and love without liking is like a chain with a manacle at each end.
